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Marcel E. Nimni

Expert in signal and image processing, as well as the perceptual quality of digital video
  • Professor of Surgery, Biochemistry and Orthopaedics, Keck School of Medicine
  • Director of Surgical Research
  • Director of Laboratory of Connective Tissue Biochemistry and Anomalies
Office: (323) 442-2783

Expertise

  • bioprosthetic implants
  • tissue implant devices
  • biochemistry of connective tissues
  • collagen - biochemistry and molecular biology
  • collagen diseases
  • calcification of heart valves
  • bone formation
  • growth factors - targeted delivery

Languages

  • Spanish

Additional Information

  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Society for Biomaterials
  • Editor of Collagen: Biochemistry, Biomechanics and Biotechnology (1988)
  • Co-editor of Collagen: Molecular Biology, vol. 4 (1989) and Collagen: Pathobiochemistry, vol. 5 (1991)
  • Recipient of NIH Merit Award (1988) for study of bone formation